Fisch Quotes & Sayings

He glanced to the walkways on either side of him, wondering what the chances were that he would actually catch sight of Ziva. Keeping an eye out for someone who didn't want to be found - especially when that someone was Lieutenant Ziva Payvan - was as close to futile as something could get. It wasn't a matter of finding her, but rather of her making herself known when she saw fit. — E.J. Fisch

You know, I've always admired you for seeming so selfless and trying to shift the blame to yourself, but then I got to thinking...." He turned around to address her directly, and his eyes were colder than she'd ever seen them. "Maybe you just can't stand the thought of everything not being about you. — E.J. Fisch

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves. — Frank Bidart

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different. — Dale Berra

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May

Charles Peirce wrote the definition of University in the Century Dictionary. He called it an institution for purposes of study. They wrote to him that their notion had been that a university was an institution for instruction. He wrote back that if they had any such notion they were grievously mistaken, that a university had not and never had had anything to do with instruction and that until we got over this idea we should not have any university in this country. — Max Harold Fisch

He thought how wonderful it would be if he could take off his shoes and walk barefooted in the grass the way he used to do in the park when he was a boy. What a fine picture that would be - the President walking barefooted on the White House lawn - and he knew if he did it the picture would be reproduced in one hundred million homes across the nation and the world and it would win him votes. The people liked to think of the President being a bit impulsive when it came to matters of the heart, a bit comic in domestic affairs, a bit inferior to each of them in some way.... — James Edwin Gunn

Keisha, my love," I said in my fey-est, gayest drawl, "your bum doesn't just look big, it is big. No, I take that back. It's enormous. Planets feel inferior beside it . Lesser bums are drawn into orbit around it. Last time it went dark, everyone said, Oh, is it an eclipse? And I told them, 'No, it's Keisha's bum blotting out the sun.' I could compose odes to the size of your bum."

Jude answering Keisha's question "Does my bum look big in this?"

Merrow, JL (2013-04-09). Slam! (Kindle Locations 35-38). — J.L. Merrow

What do you think you're going to do with an antique rifle?"

"Probably shoot something with it. — E.J. Fisch

She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with. — E.J. Fisch

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain

It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis. — C. G. Jung

I'm going to stick by you, for better or for worse."

"It will most likely be worse, you know."

"Yeah, I figured. — E.J. Fisch

You're a killer.... I never did peg you for an ordinary field agent. The way you carry yourself, the apathy in your eyes -- dangerous people recognize these things in other dangerous people. — E.J. Fisch

Is she always like this?"

"Like what? A sociopathic shouka? Not always, if you can believe it. Is she always damn good at what she does? Yes. Always. — E.J. Fisch

Do you remember when you came in and got me out of the harvesting room at Dakiti? I hadn't expected to ever see you again, and you just said--"

"Of course I came back, you idiot. — E.J. Fisch

Well, as far as I'm concerned, you're just one more arrogant shouka who couldn't care less about anyone but herself."

"You're not wrong there. — E.J. Fisch

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee. — James I Of Scotland

How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it. — Richard Fisch

You didn't have to do this, you know. I would have been fine."

"No, you wouldn't have. You would have done everything in your power to make sure everyone thought you were fine. — E.J. Fisch

Why? Why are you doing this?"

"Because, even though you sometimes make my job ten times harder than it needs to be, I've never doubted your abilities for a second. — E.J. Fisch

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. — Cliff Stearns

Any walk towards the reason and goodness is a holy walk! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Biblical repentance, then, is not merely a sense of regret that leaves us where it found us. It is a radical reversal that takes us back along the road of our sinful wanderings, creating in us a completely different mind-set. We come to our senses spiritually (Luke 15:17). Thus the prodigal son's life was no longer characterized by the demand "give me" (v. 12) but now by the request "make me . . ." (v. 19). This lies on the surface of the New Testament's teaching. Regret there will be, but the heart of repentance is the lifelong moral and spiritual turnaround of our lives as we submit to the Lord. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

He wondered briefly if she always got people to do her bidding just by looking at them. — E.J. Fisch

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose. — Jonathan Ames

Do you really think you can just walk back in here and expect us all to cooperate after what you did?"

"Would it help at all if I said I was sorry? — E.J. Fisch

I'm sure you remember Lieutenant Tarbic."

"I do. I must say he looked better through my rifle scope. — E.J. Fisch